As promised, here is the latest alpha version of Unending Galaxy. It’s far more complete and stable than the previous 0.5.5 build. This is as feature complete as you’ll get before the beta release planned for September.
As usual, the full article will explain the changes into more details, but here’s the main points:
At long last, here is the new version of Unending Galaxy. This is, by far, the biggest and largest update to date with tons of improvements, features and bug fixes. While it’s still an early alpha, it’s a good starting point for people who want to get a quick overview of the game.
As usual, the full article will explain changes into details, but here’s the most important bits:
This a very large update to the last version with many new features, gameplay improvements, bug fixes and changes. Of course it’s still a work-in-progress. The full article will explain things in details, but here are the main points:
This is the last update to the demo for quite a while as I am going back to the writing of the more complex features (as explained in the previous development logs). Anyway, this new version implements animations, new weapon behaviors (AoE, mines), quite a lot of graphical improvements and fixes several issues found in previous releases. The full changelog is available at the end of the article, but here are the main points:
The new version is available for download here.
For a more in depth look …
I took the week to change, improve and fix the most glaring issues I found in the latest release. The full changelog is quite large but the most important changes are :
The new version is available for download here.
For a more in depth look …
Sorry about the radio silence during the last 15 days, but I have been hard at work trying to finish the pre alpha demo I promised when I started this project. I put as much as I could into it, and highly improved the user interface (video settings, configurable keys, skinned menus). I fixed many annoyances and bugs, improved the AI and performances, I will skip the usual list of changes because it’s way too big and specific to be of any interest to anyone but me. The most noticeable change is the new user interface anyway (screenshots have been added here) and that control groups are handled.
Understand that this demo is hardly a game yet. There’s no mission and what you can do is very limited. In other words if you are looking to actually “play a game” here, this is not for you. However, the demo can give you an idea on how the navigation, the combat and the GUI will look like in the final product.
This is a major release.
General Settings have been added. It allows you to set the default settings for your automated carriers and stations. You can setup the Defense Grid here, and the Ignore Faction setting has been moved to this menu too.
Basic marine training support added. You can now use your Docks and M1 (and M1 only) to train your marines either in theorical or combat training. This option costs money (refer to the manual for additional details). Marines with a high mechanical or Engineering skill will help with ship repairs, granted they are not training on your ship. This feature is not yet balanced, and will probably need some improvement.
The menu system has been altered to be more user friendly, this is especially visible in the General Settings, Attack/Defend wing orders and the Automated Carrier Settings. There’s still a few things to improve.
Now, you can enable the “Automated Mode” on the [playership].
Use this option with caution. Don’t put your docking bay next to an asteroid for example.
Several issues related to the Grid System have been corrected.
Also, docking orders will now take the Transporter Device into account correctly.
Changes: